UK takes lead in COVID vax, citizens to get first shots next week

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OUR EDITIONS:
JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD
& LUCKNOW
RAJ BUDGET SESSION
IN FEBRUARY 2021
Budget session of Rajasthan
Legislative Assembly to
commence in February 2021.
The Cabinet Secretariat has
written to all departments and
sought achievements from
them for Governor’s address.
UK TAKES LEAD IN COVID VAX,
CITIZENS TO GET FIRST SHOTS NEXT WEEK!
UnitedKingdombecomesfirstcountryintheworldtoapprovePfizer/
BioNTechcoronavirusvaccine,pavingthewayformassvaccination
Mohd Fahad
London: UnitedKingdom
approved Pfizer’s COV-
ID-19 vaccine on Wednes-
day, jumping ahead of the
United States and Europe
to become the West’s first
country to formally en-
dorse a jab it said should
reachthemostvulnerable
people early next week.
Prime Minister Boris
Johnson touted the medi-
cine authority’s approval
as a global win and a ray
of hope amid the gloom
of the novel coronavirus
which has killed nearly
1.5 million people glob-
ally, hammered the world
economy and upended
normal life.
Britain’s Medicines
and Healthcare products
Regulatory Agen-
cy (MHRA)
granted emer-
gency use ap-
proval to the
Pfizer-BioN-
Tech vaccine,
which they
say is 95% ef-
fective in pre-
venting illness, in
record time - just 23 days
since Pfizer published
the first data from its fi-
nal stage clinical trial.
“It’s fantastic,” John-
son said. “The vaccine
will begin to be made
available across the UK
from next week. It’s the
protection of vaccines
that will ultimately allow
us to reclaim our lives
and get the economy
moving again.” Turn to P6
40 MILLION
DOSES ORDERED
-70O
C
TEMP NEEDED
COVID-19
VACCINE
NOT IN INDIA
The Pfizer/BioNTech jab is
the fastest vaccine to go
from concept to reality,
taking only 10 months to
follow the same steps that
normally span 10 years. The
UK has already
ordered 40
million doses
of the free
jab - enough
to vaccinate
20 million
people.
The vaccine is made
in Belgium and has to
be stored at around
-70o
C As hospitals in
UK already have the
facilities to store the
vaccine at the tem-
perature required, the
very first vaccinations
are likely to take place
there - for care home
staff, NHS staff and
patients - so none of
the vaccine is wasted.
New Delhi: The Pfizer vaccine is unlikely to be
available in India at this time, sources have told
NDTV. For a vaccine to be allowed in India it must
clear clinical trials here, and sources said neither
Pfizer nor its partner companies had asked to hold
such trials. This means that even if Pfizer partners
with an Indian company now it will take some time
for the vaccine to be available in the country. The
government did hold talks with Pfizer in August but
there has been no development since.
It’s the protection of
vaccines that will
ultimately allow
us to reclaim our lives
and get the economy
moving again.
Boris Johnson,
UK Prime
Minister
AMARINDER TO TAKE
FIRST COVID VACCINE
SHOT IN PUNJAB
BENGAL GUV, MIN
OFFER TO VOLUNTEER
FOR COVAXIN TRIAL
Chandigarh: With the COVID-19
vaccine in the final stages of
operationalisation in India,
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder
Singh on Wednesday announced
that he will take the first shot of
the vaccine in the state, once it is
cleared by the IICMR.
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep
Dhankhar, 69, and state minister
Firhad Hakim, 61, have ex-
pressed willingness to volunteer
for the phase 3 trial of Covaxin,
the government-backed Covid-19
vaccine. The trial was launched in
Kolkata on Wednesday.
WHO WILL GET THE VACCINE FIRST?
The government plans to prioritize as it begins to deploy the vaccine,
starting with residents and staff in care homes, then moving to people over
80 years old and health-care workers, documents show.
New Delhi: Union
Home Minister Amit
Shah will meet Punjab
Chief Minister Ama-
rinder Singh on Thurs-
day amid the escalating
farmers protest around
Delhi, spearheaded by
farmers from Punjab
and Haryana. The meet-
ing will take place at
9.30 am, sources said,
ahead of the crucial
meeting with farmers’
representatives.
On Wednesday, Farm-
ers’ organisations met
at one of the Delhi-Har-
yana borders to decide
their strategy, a day af-
ter they turned down
the centre’s second
pitch Turn to P6
Amit Shah, CM Amarinder to meet
ahead of talks with farmers today
GUV MISHRA KEEPS RAJ FARM BILLS WAITING
Jaipur: Governor Kalraj Mishra has ‘not approved’ the agricultural bills
passed by the Rajasthan state assembly. The Ashok Gehlot government
had on November 2 presented the bills to counter Centre’s Farm laws. P3
Farmers prepare food for others during protest in New Delhi on Wednesday.
India invites
UK PM to
be R-Day
chief guest
New Delhi: UK Prime
Minister Boris Johnson
is expected to be the
chief guest at 2021 Re-
public day with Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi formally inviting
him during their No-
vember 27 telephonic
conversation.
Johnson, on his
part, has invited PM
Modi to the G-7 sum-
mit in the United King-
dom next year, people
familiar with the de-
velopment said.
The last British
prime minister at the
Republic Day parade
was John Major in 1993.
Apex Court: CCTVs with audio at
all interrogation rooms, lock-ups
New Delhi: All police
stations in the country
and investigation agen-
cies including the CBI,
National Investigation
Agency and Enforce-
ment Directorate, must
install CCTV cameras
with night vision and
audio recording, the Su-
preme Court said today
in a landmark order
meant to prevent ex-
cesses in custody.
States have to install
cameras with audio at
all police stations.
Security cameras
should cover interroga-
tion rooms, lock-ups,
entries and exits, said
the Supreme Court.
“Most of these agen-
cies carry out interro-
gation in their office(s),
so CCTVs shall be com-
pulsorily installed in all
offices where such in-
terrogation and holding
of accused takes place
in the same manner as
it would in a police sta-
tion,” the judges said.
“These cameras must
be installed at entry and
exit points of the police
station, lock ups, corri-
dors, lobbies, reception
area, rooms of the sub-
Inspector and Inspector,
reception and outside
washrooms.”
CCTV cameras with
recording facilities are
also to be installed at
the offices of the Nar-
cotics Control Bureau,
Directorate of Revenue
Intelligence and the Se-
rious Fraud Investiga-
tion Office.
The audio recordings
have to be retained for
18 months for evidence,
if needed.
Covid management in the state an
example for nation to follow: CM Gehlot
Kartikey Dev Singh
Jaipur: Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot has said
that with determina-
tion and continued vigi-
lance, Rajasthan has set
an example in manage-
ment of Corona.
“At present, Corona
is being treated in all
states with different
treatment protocols.
This leads to confusion
among patients and the
physician community
about which treatment
protocol is more effec-
tive. The Central Gov-
ernment should take
initiative in this direc-
tion and through ICMR
should prescribe
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CM Ashok Gehlot, Niranjan Arya, Kuldeep Ranka, Dr. VK Paul and
others during the meeting
z Need for
uniform treatment
protocol throughout
nation: CM
z NITI Aayog
member Dr. VK
Paul appreciated
the Corona
management under
Gehlot’s leadership
DISCUSSION ON CORONA WITH CENTRAL TEAM
EX-HC JUDGE CS KARNAN
ARRESTED FOR ‘OFFENSIVE’
REMARKS ON JUDGES’ WIVES
YOGI REACHES OUT TO
BOLLYWOOD, IRKS SENA
Chennai: A former High
Court judge, CS Karnan,
was arrested today over
offensive comments he
allegedly made against
woman judges and
wives of judges, which
were posted on You-
Tube. The ex-judge was
arrested by the Chennai
police. He had allegedly
made defamatory and
offensive comments
against Supreme Court
and High Court judges,
the wives of judges and
uploaded them online.
The Madras High Court
had recently come
down heavily on the
police for not acting
in the case. In 2017, ex-
Justice Karnan became
the first sitting high
court judge to have
been sentenced to jail.
Mumbai: Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister, Yogi
Adityanath hosted a
press conference today
in Mumbai where he
talked about the pro-
cedure to set up a film
city in his state Uttar
Pradesh. During the
interaction, on being
asked about Shiv Seva
leader Sanjay Raut’s
recent comment on his
film city building plan,
he told in conference
that, “We’ve not come
here to take anything
away. We’re building
a new Film City. Why
one is getting wor-
ried about it?” Earlier,
Raut had questioned
UP CM’s plan for the
upcoming film city and
said, “Not easy to shift
Mumbai’s film city to
another place. The film
industry in south India
is also big, there’re
film cities in WB &
Punjab too. Will Yogi Ji
also visit these places
& talk to directors/
artists there or is he
going to do so only in
Mumbai?”

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Jaipur/New Delhi:
The donated lungs of a
49-year-old woman from
Jaipur, who had suf-
fered fatal head injuries
in a road accident re-
cently, have been suc-
cessfully transplanted
to a 31-year-old Uttar
Pradesh resident, who
had contracted Covid-19
a few months ago.
The lung transplant
surgery, lasting 10
hours, was done at a pri-
vate hospital in New
Delhi after the organ
was transported from
the Delhi airport in a
green corridor, hospital
authorities said on
Tuesday.
The recipient, a resi-
dent of Hardoi in Uttar
Pradesh, was suffering
from advanced intersti-
tial lung disease, it said.
In a statement, the hos-
pital claimed that this
was the first such proce-
dure performed on a
post-COVID-19 patient
in north India.
In these difficult
times, the harvested
lungs were flown down
to Delhi by an Air India
flight in clockwork pre-
cision. A green corridor
had already been creat-
ed between the private
hospital and the Jaipur
international airport,
and then between the
IGI Airport and Max Su-
per Speciality Hospital
at Saket in Delhi. An
ambulance waiting at
the airport speedily
transported the donor
lungs through an 18.3
km stretch in a matter
of just 18 minutes, the
statement said.
A team of 15 doctors
operated through the
night for 10 hours to
successfully carry out
the transplant, it said.
The team was led by Ra-
hul Chandola, Associ-
ate Director, Adult
CTVS, Heart & Lung
Transplant Specialist,
at the hospital. The
31-year-old recipient
had been having breath-
ing difficulty for the last
one year and was diag-
nosed with lung silico-
sis.
He had contracted
COVID infection in
March that made the
situation worse, and till
transplant, he was on
oxygen requirement
that went from nil to 15
liters/min following
COVID-19 infection. He
eventually worsened to
a point where he needed
BIPAP support inter-
mittently, it said. —PTI
Jaipur woman’s donated lungs save UP Covid survivor
SAVING LIFE
lll
The lung
transplant
surgery, lasting
10 hours, was
done at a private
hospital in New
Delhi after the
organ was
transported from
Delhi airport
WELCOME
WINTERS!
With the arrival of winter,
the state is witnessing
a dip in mercury in
almost all the regions.
Shekhawati region,
especially Sikar and
Fatehpur is witnessing
cold nights. According
to MeT, the sky will
remain clear and till
December, most parts of
the state are expected
to be speared from cold
wave. But a clear sky is
sure to reduce minimum
temperature thus,
intensifying the winter
conditions, said MeT.
First India’s
photojournalist Suman
Sarkar captured some
birds enjoying a foggy
morning at the Jal
Mahal on Wednesday
at 7 am.
BJP braces up forAssembly bypolls;
senior leaders to holdmeeting soon
Man held for killing
elder brother
122 employees
of income tax
dept transferred
Three seats fell vacant after demise of Bhanwarlal Meghwal, Kailash Trivedi & Kiran Maheshwari
Aishwary Pradhan
Jaipur: Opposition
BJP will soon start
preparations for by-
polls on three Assembly
seats which fell vacant
after the demise of two
Congress and one BJP
MLA in the recent past.
After the elections for
Panchayat samiti and
Zila Parishad members
are over, the party lead-
ers will hold detailed
discussions to decide
the strategy for bypolls.
Sujangarh (SC) seat
in Churu fell vacant af-
ter demise of Congress
MLA and social justice
and empowerment min-
ister Bhanwar Lal
Meghwal’s death while
Sahara (Bhilwara) seat
fell vacant after demise
of Congress MLA
Kailash Trivedi. The
Rajsamand seat fell va-
cant after demise of for-
mer minister and BJP
MLA Kiran Mahesh-
wari due to Covid-19.
On all these three
seats, BJP leaders in-
cluding Rajasthan in
charge for Arun Singh,
Union ministers Gajen-
dra Singh Shekhawat,
Arjun Ram Meghwal,
national vice presidents
Vasundhara Raje and
Om Mathur, state presi-
dent Satish Poonia, LoP
Gulabchand Kataria
and deputy LoP Rajen-
dra Rathore would hold
brainstorming on de-
ciding candidate and a
strategy to win the by-
polls.
Party sources said
name of a family mem-
ber of Maheshwari,
most likely her daugh-
ter, may be considered
for Rajsamand. The seat
is dominated by Paliwal
and Gurjar community
and in case the family
member is not fielded,
the party may choose a
candidate from Brah-
min or Vaishya commu-
nities. As per this equa-
tion, the name of Ashok
Ranka, who is close to
Kataria, Shyam Sundar
Paliwal, who enjoys
good public repo, Ma-
hendra Kothari &
Bhanu Paliwal may be
considered.
In Sujangarh, BJP
would be fielding a
Meghwal community
leader because winning
the seat is not easy for
the party. Ex-MLA Khe-
maram Meghwal, ex-
district president Vas-
udev Chawla, who is
from Khateek commu-
nity, and BL Bhati, who
was OSD to former min-
ister Yunus Khan, for-
mer Pradhan Santosh
Meghwal are some
names that may be con-
sidered.
BJP has for long pre-
ferred Jat candidates on
Sahara seat and this
time too, a Jat or Gurjar
candidate may be field-
ed. Ex-MLA Ratan Lal
Jat, his brother Babulal
Chaudhary, Rupalal Jat
are some names that
may be considered.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The police ar-
rested a 25-year-old
man on charges of kill-
ing his elder brother at
a dairy booth at the Na-
taniyon ka Chauraha
on Ajmer Road on the
intervening night of
November 12 and 13,
the police said on
Wednesday.
The accused had been
misleading the cops for
several days. Police had
come to know about
feud between the two
from people around the
dairy and arrested ac-
cused Ram Bihari, 19
days after the incident.
The accused and his
brother 35-year-old Su-
dama operated the
dairy booth jointly.
DCP Pradeep Mohan
Sharma said deceased
was an alcohol addict
and used to sleep in the
booth.
On Nov 12 they had a
fight over this issue and
Sudama allegedly
slapped Ram who then
hit Sudama with iron
rod and left him in a
critical condition and
went home.
Sudama later died
inside the dairy booth.
Vimal Kothari
Jaipur: 122 employees
of state income tax dept
were transferred late
Wednesday evening. 62
office superintendents,
senior tax assistants
and steno grade-1, 26
tax assistants and steno
grade-2, 4 notice servers
& 30 multi-tasking staff
were transferred with
immediate effect. Joint
Director Income Tax In-
vestigation headquar-
ters Anuradha issued
the transfer order.
First India Bureau
Udaipur: Union Jal
Shakti minister Gajen-
dra Singh Shekhawat,
Rajsamand MP Diya
Kumari, BJP state or-
ganisation secretary
Chandrashekhar and
other leaders paid trib-
utes to late Rajsamand
MLA, Kiran Mahesh-
wari, on Wednesday.
Shekhawat, who
reached Maheshwari’s
residence at Ambamata
in Udaipur from Delhi
on Wednesday, said, “In
her, we have lost a mem-
ber of our family. Kiran
Maheshwariji ranged
from National General
Secretary, Vice Presi-
dent and Mahila Mor-
cha National President
to MP, minister, MLA.
Her contribution to so-
ciety and organisation
cannot be forgotten.”
A tribute meet was
held at Rajsamand BJP
office. An emotinal Diya
issued a written state-
ment saying, “The last
time we all met at the
inauguration of the
party office, no one
thought that such a sad
incident would happen
within a month. Seeing
the popular MLA in the
photograph today, my
mind is upset.”
Kashiram Chaudhary
Jaipur: The process of
challan will now get on-
line in transport dept as
it has taken 500 POS ma-
chines through SBI so
that challans need not
be paid manually.
Through these machine
now online challan can
be deposited by dept in-
spectors. The e-challan
programme was initi-
ated on Wednesday by
Transport Minister
Pratap Singh Khachari-
ywas where he distrib-
uted POS machines to
about a dozen inspec-
tors. Before that an
MoU was signed be-
tween the dept and SBI.
Transport Commission-
er Ravi Jain signed the
MOU on dept’s behalf
while Chief General
ManagerAmitabhChat-
terjee signed on behalf
of the bank. Machines
have been given free of
cost by SBI.
The minister said
this will give relief to
inspectors & make their
work easier.
Accused Ram Bihari
Kiran Maheshwari
SHEKHAWAT,DIYA,OTHERS PAY
TRIBUTES TO MAHESHWARI
SBI donates 500 POS
machines to transport dept
Om Prakash Sharma
Jaipur: A petition
challenging election
of Jaipur Greater
MC’s Mayor Somya
Gurjar has been filed
in district court. Peti-
tioner has sought can-
cellation of her elec-
tion. AK Jain, the
counsel for petitioner
Pinky Yadav, said that
Gurjar’s name was in-
cluded in the voter list
of Karauli. He said
Gurjar was a regis-
tered voter in her vil-
lage Devri in Karauli
when she filed nomi-
nation from ward 87
of JCMC. Gurjar got
her name removed
from the voter list of
Karauli on November
3 2020. As per the
rules, a person can
contest municipal cor-
poration polls only
when he/she is a reg-
istered voter in area
of that municipal cor-
poration. Jain said
registration in voter
list at two places and
contesting election
while concealing the
fact is not legally val-
id. Yadav had contest-
ed election in ward 87
against Gurjar and
lost by 1012 votes.
Name in 2 voter lists: PIL in court seeks
cancellation of Somya Gurjar’s election
AK Jain

RAJASTHANJAIPUR | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2020
Rajiv Gaur
Jodhpur: Interesting
but true. The rescue of
42 puppies from the
house of a woman has
led to a dispute among
women in Jodhpur.
Two dog lovers Apar-
na Bissa and Reema
Massey made a com-
plaint to Ratanada po-
lice station that 42 pup-
pies have been kept in
miserable condition in a
house. The police along
withthetworeached the
house and got the pup-
pies rescued.
The puppies were
shifted by a team of mu-
nicipal corporation. Af-
ter the rescue, Sangeeta
Surana who had kept
the puppies in her house
sat on a dharna and
lodged a case for force-
fully taking away the
puppies.Meanwhile,the
two complainants also
gave representation
against her to DCP
Dharmendra Singh fol-
lowing which another
case was registered.
Dog lovers rescue 42 pups in Jodhpur
TREATING PETS HUMANLY
‘Gole par rehna hai to gole mein raho’; campaign
for safety, awareness about novel coronavirus
Commanders
to decide
containment
zones in Jaipur
BJP leaders
write to seniors
to break ties
with RLP
Dausa woman
allegedly
gangraped
Shocked by father’s death, lawyer
kills self by jumping into river
Rajasthan records 1,990 fresh
Covid cases, 610 registered in Jpr
JDA proposes nine projects worth ` 700 crore
for traffic, tourism and beautification in city
Campaign aims at social distancing under the ‘Corona Jan Aandolan’
The Jaipur Municipal Corporation Greater and the Jaipur Police on Wednesday jointly launched an awareness campaign named ‘Gole
par rehna hai to gole mein raho’ (if want to stay on the earth, stay inside the circle).
Bharat Dixit
Jaipur: The Jaipur Mu-
nicipal Corporation
Greater and the Jaipur
Police on Wednesday
jointly launched a cam-
paign named ‘Gole par
rehna hai to gole mein
raho’ (if want to stay on
the earth, stay inside
the circle).
The campaign is
aimed to keep people
aware of social distanc-
ing under the Corona
Jan Aandolan. Addi-
tional police commis-
sioner (traffic) Satveer
Chaudhary and Deputy
Commissioner Malviya
Nagar Zone Suresh
Chaudhary launched
the campaign.
Under this campaign,
people will be given the
message that if they
want to live on the cir-
cle (on earth), then they
should remain at a cer-
tain distance from each
other.
ACP Satveer said that
this program has been
started with the inspi-
ration of Additional
Commissioner of Po-
lice Rahul Prakash and
Deputy Commissioner
of Police (Traffic)
Adarsh Sandhu. Under
this, people will be
warned to follow social
distance. Suresh said
that it is necessary to
wear masks and follow
social distance to avoid
the corona infection un-
til the vaccine comes.
This campaign has
been launched to make
people take these pre-
cautions a part of their
lives.
Circles were made at
2 yards distance at the
traffic police office at
Yadgaar where a num-
ber of people visit daily
for official purposes.
Abhishek Shrivastava
Jaipur: The Jaipur De-
velopment Authority
has approved the ap-
pointment of a consult-
ant for traffic improve-
ment, beautification
and designing of tour-
ism facilities in Jaipur.
Projects worth Rs. 700
crore have been pro-
posed by the JDA at
nine locations in Jaipur
city to ease traffic con-
gestion, strengthen
traffic infrastructure,
beautify and expand
tourism facilities after
the approval of the Ur-
ban Development and
Housing Department
(UDH) minister Shanti
Kumar Dhariwal.
The minister had
conducted visits at nine
places in the city last
month where the pro-
jects like alleviated
road, underpass, flyo-
ver for easing traffic
and for beautification
have been proposed.
JDC Gaurav Goyal
said that administra-
tive and financial ap-
proval of Rs. 5.10 crore
was given to appoint a
consultant for design-
ing new projects.
On the other hand,
two high level commit-
tees will be set for the
execution of the nine
projects. The UDH min-
ister will head the em-
powered committee in
which officials from
water, energy depart-
ments will be the mem-
bers. The empowered
committee will take
policy decisions regard-
ing the projects.
Second committee
will be set up for the
monitoring of the pro-
jects. The committee
will be headed by JDC.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Governor
Kalraj Mishra has not
approved the agricul-
tural bills passed by the
state assembly. The
Ashok Gehlot govern-
ment had on 2 Novem-
ber passed the bills in
the assembly.
The bills were
brought as amendments
to the three bills intro-
duced by the Centre
over which the farmers
are not protesting. Gov-
ernor has not sent the
three bills to the Presi-
dent of India Ram Nath
Kovind for approval, of-
ficial sources said. Con-
gress ministers and
MLAs had already ex-
pressed apprehension
in the assembly about
theGovernor’sapproval
as has happened in oth-
er non-BJP ruled states.
Meanwhile, achieve-
ments from the depart-
ments have been sought
for Governor’s address
in the Budget session
scheduled in February
2021. The Cabinet Secre-
tariat wrote a letter to
all departments
to provide 3-3 copies by
31 December.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: District collec-
tor Antar Singh Nehra
on Wednes-
dayclarified
that inci-
dent com-
m a n d e r s
(RAS) will
issue the or-
der of the
containment zone.
Heconvenedameeting
with 15 incident com-
mandersandaskedthem
for physical verification
wheremorecasesareget-
ting reported and then
incident commanders
will issue orders of con-
tainment zones.
Aishwary Pradhan
Jaipur: The BJP lead-
ers from Hadoti region
have written to Union
home minister Amit
Shah and BJP National
President JP Nadda
asking them to break
ties with the Rashtriya
Loktantrik Dal headed
by Hanuman Beniwal.
Chhabra MLA Pratap
Singh Singhvi, former
MLAs Bhawani Singh
Rajawat, Prahlad Gun-
jal, Vidyashankar
Nandwana and former
district chief Govind
Singh Parmar retaliat-
ed on the threat of Na-
gaur MP Hanuman
Beniwal that he would
break ties with the NDA
over agriculture bills.
Bhartiya Janta Party
(BJP) has become a
powerful party in the
country today, which no
political party is able to
compete, they said.
Laxmikant Sharma
Dausa: A married
woman was allegedly
gangraped under Man-
pura police station area
in Dausa district.
The police have de-
tained two accused in-
cluding a minor and
recovered a country
made pistol and live
cartridges from their
possession, police said.
Acting in the matter,
the police have detained
two men including one
minor.
Bhanwar S Charan
Kota:An advocate alleg-
edly committed suicide
byjumpingintoaCham-
bal river here.
MukulDubey(40)was
practicing in Kota dis-
trict court and had gone
missing on Tuesday fol-
lowing which brother
lodged a missing com-
plaint.
His motorcycle was
found near a bridge on
northern bypass and his
body fished out on
Wednesday morning
which was shifted to a
hospital for postmor-
tem. ASI, Hari Singh
said that Dubey’s father
had died due to sickness
12 days ago. Mukul’s un-
cle said that he was tak-
ing treatment for de-
pression.
Jaipur: Nineteen more
people succumbed to
the novel coronavirus
in Rajasthan, bringing
the toll to 2,350 on
Wednesday, while 1,990
fresh cases raised the
infection count to
2,72,400 in the state, ac-
cording to a health de-
partment bulletin. The
state now has 26,710 ac-
tive COVID-19 cases, it
said.
According to the bul-
letin, a total of 2,43,340
people have been dis-
charged after recover-
ing from the infection
in Rajasthan. Of the
fresh Covid-19 cases,
610 were registered in
Jaipur, 218 in Jodhpur,
195 in Ajmer, 155 in
Kota, 130 in Alwar, 96
in Bharatpur, 88 in Na-
gaur and 76 in Udaipur,
besides cases reported
in other districts of
the state. —PTI
Munesh Gurjar, ﬁrst mayor of JMC Heritage is active in keeping nook and corner of Jaipur’s
Walled City clean, amid the cleanliness drive Mayor stops over to provide free mask and educate
children about the mandatory use of face masks in the community during the ongoing Covid-19
pandemic on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR
No approval from Guv
to Rajasthan agri bills
9 projects have been prepared, proposed after Shanti Dhariwal’s nod.
Covid advisory reduces
Jap-Mum air travellers
Kashiram Chaudhary
Jaipur: The number of
passengers travelling
from Jaipur to Mumbai
by air has reduced by
10-15 percent due to the
compulsion of carrying
negative report of covid
testing to enter Maha-
rashtra.
The passenger load
in flight to Mumbai this
Monday was compara-
tively low as compared
to Monday last week.
Prior to the condition
of covid test, the flights
to Mumbai were operat-
ing at full capacity.
The Maharashtra gov-
ernment has made the
negative report manda-
tory for the passengers
coming from four states
including Rajasthan
from 25 November and
after the new condition,
the number of passen-
gers in flights depart-
ment from Jaipur to
Maharashtra has come
down.
Those who do not
carry the report, they
have to get themselves
tested at the Mumbai
airport which takes 6
hours.
A comparison of
passenger load reveals
that the passenger load
in these flights has re-
duced by 10 to 15 pc.
An outside view of Jaipur International Airport.
Governor Kalraj Mishra
Two dog lovers Aparna Bissa and Reema Massey made a complaint to Ratanada police station that
42 puppies have been kept in miserable condition in a house.
MP DIYA KUMARI
TESTS +VE
Puppies kept in bucket.
Antar Singh
Nehra

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PFIZER FIRST OFF THE
BLOCK AS BRITAIN
DEPLOYS VACCINE
ritain has become the first
country in the world to allow
American and German phar-
maceutical company Pfizer-
BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to
be administered to high priority groups
like hospital staff and the elderly across
England. Britain’s Medicines and Health-
care products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
granted emergency use approval for the
vaccine which is said to have a proven ef-
ficacy of 95 per cent. The approval in re-
cord time has made Pfizer and its Ger-
man biotechnology partner win the glob-
al race for a vaccine. The vaccine will be
available in the UK in a week’s time dur-
ing which the government will have to
develop logistical support like extremely
low temperature and the vaccine’s high
price to make it affordable. The other dis-
advantage with this vaccine is that it is
effective for six months only.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed his
government’s decision. “It’s fantastic. The
vaccine will begin to be made available across
the UK from next week. It’s the protection of
vaccines that will ultimately allow us to re-
claim our lives and get the economy moving
again,” Johnson said. Britain gave the regu-
latory clearance in 23 days of the Pfizer pub-
lishing its final clinical trial data.
Britain won the race over the US where
the outgoing President Donald Trump
has refused to acknowledge the gravity
of the Covid crisis despite the virus hav-
ing killed 277,071 persons. With positive
cases standing at a humongous 14, 113,
667 the United States is the worst- affect-
ed country by coronavirus. With a recal-
citrant Trump refusing to facilitate
transfer of power to the President-elect
Joe Biden there is no authority in Wash-
ington to deploy any vaccine candidate,
whether it is by Pfizer or Moderna.
Yet Americans won’t be the first to get the
vaccine developed by the US-based company.
President could have also ordered emergen-
cy use of the Pfizer vaccine but for a grudge
he holds against the pharma giant. Last
month Trump had accused Pfizer and the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of de-
nying him a “vaccine win” by withholding
the announcement on the Covid vaccine.
Trump claimed that he removed a large num-
ber of obstacles to hasten the vaccine’s de-
velopment.
In India a race is on between the Serum
Institute of India’s Covishield and Bharat
Biotech’s Covaxin. Both the candidates
are in the final stages of clinical trial
and should be available for a roll-out
early next year. As of now Covishield ap-
pears to have an edge over Covaxin de-
spite the setback due to a reported ad-
verse medical reaction on a volunteer. As
the quantum of vaccines required in the
country is not known, both Covishield
and Covaxin could get regulatory approv-
al depending on their data at the end of
third phase trials.
IN-DEPTH
B
ecent an-
nouncements
of demonstrat-
ed efficacy in
COVID-19 vac-
cine trials have brought
hope that a return to nor-
mality is in sight.
The preliminary data for
Pfizer/BioNTech and Mod-
erna’s novel mRNA vac-
cines are highly encourag-
ing, suggesting that their
approval for emergency
use is forthcoming. And
more recent news of effec-
tiveness (albeit at a slightly
lower rate) in a vaccine
from AstraZeneca and Uni-
versity of Oxford has
fueled optimism that even
more breakthroughs are
on their way.
In theory, the arrival of
a safe and effective vaccine
would represent the begin-
ning of the end of the COV-
ID-19 pandemic. In reality,
we are not even at the end
of the beginning of deliv-
ering what is needed: a
“people’s vaccine” that is
equitably distributed and
made freely available to all
who need it.
To be sure, the work to
create vaccines in a matter
of months deserves praise.
Humanity has made a
monumental technological
leap forward. But the
springboard was decades
of massive public invest-
ment in research and de-
velopment.
Most of the leading vac-
cine candidates prime the
immune system’s defenses
against the viral “spike
protein,” an approach
made possible through
years of research at the US
National Institutes of
Health. More immediately,
BioNTech has received
$445 million from the Ger-
man government, and
Moderna has received $1
million from the Coalition
for Epidemic Preparedness
Innovations and more than
$1 billion from the US Bio-
medical Advanced Re-
search and Development
Authority and the US De-
fense Advanced Research
Projects Agency. The As-
traZeneca-Oxford vaccine
has received more than £1
billion ($1.3 billion) of pub-
lic funding.
But for technological ad-
vances to translate into
Health for All, innovations
that are created collective-
ly should be governed in
the public interest, not for
private profit. This is espe-
cially true when it comes
to developing, manufactur-
ing, and distributing a vac-
cine in the context of a
pandemic.
No country acting alone
can resolve this crisis.
That is why we need vac-
cines that are universally
and freely available. And
yet, the current innovation
system prioritizes the in-
terests of high-income
countries over those of
everyone else, and profits
over public health.
The first step toward a
people’s vaccine is to en-
sure full transparency of
the clinical-trial results,
which would enable inde-
pendent and timely assess-
ments of safety and effica-
cy. The publication of
scanty, preliminary data
through corporate press
releases is meant for finan-
cial markets, not the pub-
lic-health community. This
practice sets a bad prece-
dent.
While pharmaceutical
share prices surge, health
professionals and the pub-
lic are left second-guessing
the reported results. As
more details about the
flaws in clinical trial de-
sign and implementation
for the AstraZeneca-Ox-
ford vaccine emerge, so do
the calls for open science
and immediate sharing of
protocols and results.
In addition, critical
questions about the lead-
ing vaccine candidates re-
main unanswered. Re-
sponding to political and
economic pressure in high-
income countries, pharma-
ceutical companies are
rushing their vaccine can-
didates across the finish
line.
Accordingly, they have
designed their phase-three
clinical trials to deliver the
quickest possible positive
read-out, rather than ad-
dressing more relevant
questions such as whether
the vaccine prevents infec-
tion or just protects against
the disease.
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Strive to still your thoughts.
Make your mind one-pointed
in meditation.
—The Bhagavad Gita
Spiritual
SPEAK
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TWEET
Prakash Javadekar
@PrakashJavdekar
Our government led by PM Shri
@narendramodi has ensured that
farmers are paid remunerative
prices & that hike in MSP increases
substantially with every passing
year.The welfare of our farmers is
our top priority.#MSPhaiAurRahega
Dharmendra Pradhan
@dpradhanbjp
Climate change & the energy
sector are closely intertwined
and navigating energy transitions
while meeting emission goals is a
challenging task.Through infusion
of technology & investments we
can drive sustainability in the
Indian energy sector & propel
towards a net zero future.
ecently I came across a fascinat-
ing news item about how scien-
tists are using artificial intelli-
gence (AI) to research past and
present smells of Europe to
identify and trace their link to
language, places, cultural prac-
tices and emotions. This made
me curious to know more about
AI. My limited research on this
subject was an eye-opener.
Whether it is Google search en-
gine or Facebook feed or Insta-
gram AI is impacting us every-
where. Tesla cars are so much
in the news, they drive by them-
selves using AI. Cameras and
ultrasonic sensors fitted on
them act like human eyes and
ears through which they get
data, spot other cars, read road
signs, know about faraway ob-
jects and are able to park safely.
Data from hundreds and thou-
sands of Tesla cars is fed into a
central system and used for im-
proving software to make the
cars safer and better.
A glimpse of how AI is going
to change the world radically is
the development of GPT (Gen-
erativePre-training),alanguage
model which is considered the
biggest leap in AI- it is being de-
veloped by a company called
OpenAI based out of San Fran-
cisco. Trained on massive data
on the net, GPT produces text,
poetry, translation, design, tech-
nical manuals, code and much
morewheneveratopicisfedinto
it.Thethirdversion,GPT-3,with
175 billion parameters, has been
released recently and is in beta
testing.Itisabletocommentand
predict replies and responses
like humans- imagine humans
being replaced by a software for
writing on any subject. The Uni-
versityof Nottinghamisdoinga
project wherein AI is being
trained to predict death due to
chronic disease. And then AI be-
ing used for digital news an-
chors, visual effects in movies,
creating most-photo realistic
digital characters with feature
film qualities, actors playing
younger role et al. Berkley Uni-
versity is using professional
dancerstoanimatearegularper-
son who cannot dance like that.
CAN AI SURPASS
HUMAN BEINGS?
Two examples where AI has
excelled human beings:
z IBM machine Watson defeated
Kane and Brat, two champions
on US live TV quiz show called
Jeopardy. Watson made use of
massive information from the
Internet including Wikipedia.
z Google’s AlphaGO, a computer
programme, beat one of the
worlds leading Go players, Lee
Sedol of Korea. The machine,
fed with all kinds of go-games
designed to teach itself, came
up with creative moves. It
was a form of AI called deep
learning that mimics the neural
networks of the human brain.
The great potential of AI has
triggered varying reactions
fromtotaloptimismtodystopia.
Stephen Hawking- ‘Develop-
ment of full AI could spell the
end of the human race’
Elon Musk- ‘Rampant AI is
the biggest existential threat
facing mankind’
Humans cannot be dispensed
with but certainly we need to
adapt to the changing situation.
As Elon Musk further says - AI
can be the best or worst thing
for the humans. It creates pow-
erful computing that can solve
problems, spot patterns to help
find health cures, robots can do
things better than human be-
ings. What happens when ma-
chines surpass human intelli-
gence? The point is if weapons
are regulated so should be AI.
Ultimately AI will follow the
will of people that programmed
it and people need to fully un-
derstand this and realize the
impact of AI on humans.
TWO AI SUPERPOWERS
So far Silicon Valley has been
the epicentre of the digital revo-
lution with AI as the buzzword.
Stanford University is at the
forefrontof AIresearchwithan-
nual budget of $ 6.5 billion . Not
to be left behind China has de-
cided to chase the AI future.
Starting as copycats for over 15
years they have developed their
own form of entrepreneurship
and technology. The US is ahead
in technology and may be the
firsttodeployautonomousvehi-
cles but it will be China popular-
izing them. Seeing the impor-
tance of AI, Mr Xi has declared
that China would catch up with
the US in AI by 2025 and lead the
worldby2030.TodayChinaleads
in e-commerce with drones to
deliver goods in villages, its so-
ciety has bypassed credit cards
with currency being facial rec-
ognition.Therearealready17-18
unicornsinAIinChina,thenew
generation of tech startups fi-
nanced by China’s venture capi-
talists. No other country has
moved that fast. China is now
building a new city, the size of
Chicago, enabled with autono-
mous driving and a new high-
way with sensors for safer au-
tonomous vehicles. China has
lot more users than any other
country,10timesmoredatathan
the USA- more data helps AI
working. In the age of AI where
data is the new oil, China is con-
sidered the new Saudi Arabia.
They use AI to predict credit-
worthiness of a person wanting
a short term loan. Loan approv-
alstakesjust8secondswith5000
featuresrelatingtothepersonas
AI digs up features which are
never visible to human beings.
AIcanmarshallavastamount
of databeyondanythinganyhu-
man could handle and use it to
teach itself about the outcome.
There are endless possibilities
with AI revolution sweeping the
world-also called the 4th indus-
trial revolution. India too need
to catch up fast in developing AI
despite many challenges. Hope-
fully with greater digital inclu-
sionandpushfromGovernment
and industry AI can play a sig-
nificantroleinfindingsolutions
tocomplexproblemsandinaug-
menting growthof theeconomy.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Stanford
University is at
the forefront of
AI research with
annual budget of
$ 6.5 billion. Not
to be left behind
China has
decided to chase
the AI future.
Starting as
copycats for over
15 years they
have developed
their own
form of
entrepreneurship
and technology.
AI CAN MARSHALL A
VAST AMOUNT OF
DATA BEYOND
ANYTHING ANY
HUMAN COULD
HANDLE AND USE IT
TO TEACH ITSELF
ABOUT THE OUTCOME
DR GS
SANDHU
THE AUTHOR IS A RETIRED
IAS, RAJASTHAN

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INDIAJAIPUR | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2020
New Delhi: The Indi-
an economy is coming
out of the pandemic-
induced degrowth and
GDP growth will enter
the positive territory
in the fourth quarter
of this fiscal, Niti Aay-
og Vice-Chairman Ra-
jiv Kumar said on
Wednesday.
In an interview to
PTI, Kumar also said
the Centre's new agri-
culture reform laws are
aimed at increasing the
income of farmers and
the present agitation
was a result of misun-
derstanding and mis-
communication which
need to be removed.
"The second quarter
GDP figure (contrac-
tion of 7.5 per cent) re-
flects that the economy
is coming out of this
pandemic-induced de-
growth phase and my
expectation is that in
the third quarter, we
will achieve the same
level of economic ac-
tivity as the year ago
period.
"And the fourth
quarter will show a
small but positive
growth over the previ-
ous year because the
government has used
this period for usher-
ing in many structural
reforms and some
more are in the pipe-
line," he said.
Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi and Union
Home Minister Amit
ShahwishedtheBharati-
ya Janata Party (BJP)
President Jagat Prakash
Nadda on his birthday
on Wednesday.
‘GDP growth to enter
positive territory in Q4’Economy is coming out of pandemic-hit degrowth phase, says Rajiv New Delhi: "Many con-
gratulations to BJP Na-
tional President JP Na-
dda ji on his birthday.
Under his skilled and
inspiring leadership,
the party is constantly
touching new heights. I
wish they always be
healthy and longevity,"
the Prime Minister
Narendra Modi tweet-
ed in Hindi.
Union Home Minis-
ter Amit Shah also
wished the BJP chief
healthy and long life.
"Happy Birthday to
Shri JP Nadda ji, Hon-
orable National Presi-
dent of Bharatiya Ja-
nata Party. Under your
leadership, the party is
constantly moving
ahead with strength. I
pray to God for your
healthy life and longev-
ity," tweeted Shah
(roughly translated
from Hindi).
As per the official
website of the BJP, Na-
dda, who originally
hails from Himachal
Pradesh, was born on 2
December 1960 in Pat-
na, Bihar. After com-
pleting his BA from
Patna University, he
studied LL.B from
Himachal Pradesh Uni-
versity. He actively par-
ticipated in various
movements run by Jai
Prakash Narayan dur-
ing his young age. —ANI
PM Modi wishes
BJP president JP
Nadda on b’day
New Delhi: After the
Bombay high court set
aside Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation
notice to actor Kangana
Ranaut regarding “ille-
gal construction” at her
office premises and
called it “nothing but
malice in law”, the ac-
tor moved the Supreme
Court and filed a caveat
in the case. —ANI
Demolition row:
Kangana moves
Supreme Court,
files caveatNew Delhi: India will
drive the growth in
global energy demand
and an indigenous path-
way has been laid to
meet growing energy
needs, said Dharmen-
dra Pradhan, Minister
of Petroleum and Natu-
ral Gas on Wednesday.
While addressing the
'Vision 2030 for oil and
gas sector for an Aat-
manirbhar Bharat' we-
binar, Pradhan also
spoke about the trans-
formative shift in In-
dia's oil and gas sector
and its stride towards
greater self-reliance.
"India will drive the
growth in global energy
demand. We have laid
out an indigenous path-
way to meet the grow-
ing energy needs while
ensuring energy sus-
tainability and self-reli-
ance. Also, spoke about
India's stride towards a
gas-based economy, pol-
icy reforms in the hy-
drocarbon sector, lever-
aging technology to de-
velop new & renewable
forms of energy. Ensur-
ing clean fuel for our
citizens will not only
create a greener society
but also drive greater
self-reliance," the Un-
ion Minister tweeted.
He said that the days
of monopoly were gone
and with new policy re-
forms, a new wave of
growth was expected in
the country. "The days
of monopoly is gone.
With policy reforms,
new business models,
level-playing field,
greater involvement of
startups, diversifica-
tion of energy sources,
India is set to ride the
next wave of growth,"
Pradhan said.—ANI
India will drive growth in global
energy demand: Pradhan
Mumbai: A Mumbai
court on Wednesday
granted bail to actress
Rhea Chakraborty's
brother Showik
Chakraborty, who was
arrested in a drugs case
linked to actor Sushant
Singh Rajput's death.
The Narcotics Con-
trol Bureau (NCB) had
arrested Showik
Chakraborty in Sep-
tember this year under
provisions of the Nar-
cotic Drugs and Psycho-
tropic Substances
(NDPS) Act.
Special NDPS court
judge G B Gurao grant-
ed bail to him on
Wednesday on a person-
al bond of Rs 50,000.
In his bail plea,
Showik Chakraborty
had relied on a recent
Supreme Court judg-
ment which said that
"confessional state-
ments" made to NCB of-
ficials cannot be consid-
ered as evidence. —PTI
Rhea’s brother
Showik gets
bail 3 months
after arrest
DRUGS CASE
Patna: Veteran BJP
leader Sushil Kumar
Modi on Wednesday
filed his nomination pa-
pers for by-election to a
Rajya Sabha seat in Bi-
har which has been ne-
cessitated by the death
of Union minister Ram
Vilas Paswan.
Modi filed his nomi-
nation papers at the
Patna Commissioner
office in presence of a
host of leaders of the
ruling NDA, most nota-
ble being Chief Minis-
ter Nitish Kumar,
whose deputy he had
been for more than a
decade, sharing an ex-
cellent rapport that has
been a stuff of legend
in the states political
circles. 'I have come
here to congratulate my
former colleague.
He is currently an
MLC and formerly been
a member of the Lok
Sabha and an MLA be-
fore that.
Patna: Rashtriya Sway-
amsevak Sangh chief
Mohan Bhagwat will
visit Patna for 2 days to
participate in its meet-
ing on December 4.
Vinesh Prasad, chief of
RSS Bihar unit, told
that Bhagwat will stay
in Patna. "It is an inter-
nal 'Mandal Karyaka-
rini' meeting of the RSS
on December 4. Such a
meeting is held in Nag-
pur. Due to coronavirus
pandemic, separate
meetings are being or-
ganised in various
states. RSS members of
Bihar will take part in
the December 4 meet-
ing," Prasad said. RSS
members from West
Bengal and other east-
ern states will also par-
ticipate in this meeting.
Bhagwat's Bihar visit
comes in the wake of
political buzz about the
RSS trying to spread its
wings in Bihar and WB.
RSS chief to visit Bihar
for 2 days from Dec 4
New Delhi: Former Un-
ion Minister and Con-
gress MP Manish
Tewari on Wednesday
urged the Central Gov-
ernment to convene the
winter session of Par-
liament as soon as pos-
sible to resolve the is-
sues of farmers and to
deliberate on matters
of Chinese incursion,
and rising COVID-19
cases in the country.
Taking to Twitter, the
Former Union Minister
and Congress MP Man-
ish Tewari said, "Farm-
ers have besieged Delhi,
Economy is officially in
recession, Chinese con-
tinues to encroach upon
over 1000 square kilo-
metres of our land,
COVID cases are at 95
lakhs with 1.38 lakhs
dead in 8 months. GOVT
NEEDS TO CONVENE
THE WINTER SES-
SION OF PARLIA-
MENT ASAP WITH-
OUT DELAY."
‘Convene
winter session
of Parliament’
Sushil files
nomination for
RS by-election
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on
Wednesday refused to
pass any direction on
a plea, filed in the
backdrop of the Hath-
ras incident, seeking
reforms in the laws
concerning rape and
grievous injuries, but
asked the petitioner to
file a representation
before the Central gov-
ernment for the same.
A bench headed by
Justice NV Ramana
said the court can not
make legislation and
asked the petitioner,
advocate Kirti Ahuja,
to file representation
before the Central
govermment.
The petiitoner's
counsel told the court
that after the Hathras
incident a lot of peo-
ple searched for the
victim online and add-
ed that even her (vic-
tim's) photograph was
uploaded on internet.
During the hearing,
Justice Ramana ob-
served that these is-
sues have nothing to
do with law.
"People want to do
such things. There is a
right to freedom of
speech and expres-
sion. Already there
are enough laws for
this. —ANI
SC refuses to entertain plea for
reforms in law on rape and injuries
New Delhi: A Supreme
Court bench led by CJI
AS Bobde questioned
the need for straight
roads if their construc-
tion involved felling
trees, and argued why
roads could not be zig
zag as that would also
reduce speed and thus
prevent accidents and
savelives. TheSCbench
was listening to a plea
by UP government to
fell 2,940 trees for the
Krishna Govardhan
Road project in Mathu-
ra. As per a veteran
journalist, the UP PWD
had filed an application
in 2017 for cutting down
the trees & Central Em-
powered Committee has
already given clearance.
‘No need to cut
trees; roads
can be zigzag’
New Delhi: A special
court in Delhi granted
Enforcement Directo-
rate and Central Bu-
reau of Investigation
time till February 1, to
complete the probe in
the Aircel-Maxis case
involving former Un-
ion minister P Chid-
ambaram, his son
Karti Chidambaram
and others. Special
Judge Ajay Kumar Ku-
har allowed both the
agencies plea seeking
more time to obtain
report on Letters Rog-
atory from the UK and
Singapore in relation
to their ongoing probe
in the matter and said
“it is lingering on un-
necessarily”. The
court expressed dis-
pleasure over delay in
completion of probe
in the Aircel-Maxis
case and adjourned
the matter.
Delhi court grants ED,
CBI time till February 1
UK takes...
The world’s big powers
have been racing for a
vaccine for months in
an attempt to be first to
begin the long road to
recovery.
The approval of a
vaccine for use almost
exactly a year since the
novel coronavirus
emerged in Wuhan, Chi-
na, is a triumph for sci-
ence, Pfizer boss Albert
Bourla and his German
biotechnology partner
BioNTech.
China has already
given emergency ap-
proval for three experi-
mental vaccines and
has inoculated around 1
million people since
July. Russia has been
vaccinating frontline
workers after approving
its Sputnik V shot in Au-
gust before it had com-
pleted late-stage testing
on safety and efficacy.
Amit Shah...
for a committee to dis-
cuss the contentious
farm laws against
which they have been
holding massive pro-
tests near Delhi.
The protest - the big-
gest by farmers in years
- has entered the sev-
enth day, with thou-
sands of people from
several states camped
out on the outskirts of
Delhi. “The farmers
had given clause-wise
objection (to the farm
laws) in writing to the
government in October
itself. But on Thursday,
it will be given in writ-
ing again. Going by
Tuesday’s meeting, we
don’t think the govern-
ment is in a mood to
withdraw the laws. The
government wants
farmers to fight among
themselves,” a farmer
leader said after the
first round of meeting
today. Farmers’ groups
will meet again shortly,
with more groups join-
ing in.
A key route in east
Delhi, connecting the
capital to Noida has
been closed as around
300 farmers from differ-
ent parts of Uttar
Pradesh continued
their sit-in at the Noida-
Delhi border for the sec-
ond day. The protesting
farmers said big groups
are on their way to Del-
hi from UP’s Agra and
Etawah. The crowd at
Delhi-Noida border is
much smaller as com-
pared other other bor-
der points.
Covid management...
uniform medical proto-
col for the country,” Ge-
hlot said while holding
discussions with the
central party which had
come to oversee the Co-
rona management of
Rajasthan at the Chief
Minister’s residence on
Wednesday.
“We have started the
best management of Co-
rona by making ‘Ra-
jasthan Satark Hai’, a
motto. Rajasthan is the
only state that gave the
successful ‘Bhilwara
model’. We have man-
aged to keep the mortal-
ity rate well below 1 per
cent continuously, while
keeping the recovery
rate good. As a result,
Rajasthan is in a better
position on all parame-
ters of Corona,” Gehlolt
said.
“Till the first case of
corona in the state
where our investigative
capacity was zero, it has
increased to 60,000 due
to our continuous ef-
forts. Our government
is conducting all tests in
the most reliable RTP-
CR method. We have
strengthened the medi-
cal infrastructure from
the state capital to the
lower levels, turning the
disaster into an oppor-
tunity,” he said.
Gehlot said Central
Party has given sugges-
tions by looking at ar-
rangements in state.
“Rajasthan is already
working on most of
them. Whatever other
suggestions the party
has given, state govern-
ment will ensure effec-
tive action on them,” he
said. Health minister Dr
Raghu Sharma said that
the government has left
no stone unturned to
keep the morale of Co-
rona Health Warriors
high. “A successful cam-
paign like ‘No Mask-No
Entry’ and a mass move-
ment against Corona is
aimed at making the
common people aware
of wearing masks. Un-
der this, 1 crore masks
have been distributed.
Initially, our govern-
ment introduced the co-
rona test to be held for
Rs. 4 thousand and now
it is being done in pri-
vate labs for Rs. 800
only,” he said.
NITI Aayog member
Dr. VK Paul appreciated
the Corona manage-
ment being done in Ra-
jasthan under the lead-
ership of CM Gehlot. He
said death rate from co-
rona in the state is less
than 1%, which is much
better. “CM himself is
seriously taking critical
decisions by continu-
ously reviewing the co-
rona management, due
to which Rajasthan is
ahead of many other
states in this battle of
corona,” he said and
lauded the 100% percen-
tile test being done in
the state using the RT-
PCR method.
FROM PG 1
And the fourth quarter will show a
small but positive growth over the
previous year because the govern-
ment has used this period for ushering in
many structural reforms and some more
are in the pipeline.
—Rajiv Kumar, Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman
IN THE COURTYARD
Kangana Ranaut
Dharmendra Pradhan
Mohan Bhagwat
Karti and P Chidambaram
Showik & Rhea Chakraborty
JP Nadda
NEW APPOINTMENT
BV Srinivas appointed as President of Indian Youth
Congress. Srinivas (left) along with youth Congress
national incharge Krishna Allavaru attended Social
Media State Coordinators meeting earlier in nov 24.

NEWSJAIPUR | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2020
Parents Forum
meet edu min
Bharat Dixit
Jaipur: The meeting of
the members of All Ra-
jasthan Parents Forum
with the education de-
partment officials on
the issue of private
schools fees remained
inconclusive on
Wednesday.
In the morning, par-
ents in large numbers
reached the residence
of Education Minister
Govind Singh Dotasra
to seek his intervention
in the matter following
which, he directed offi-
cials to hold a meeting
with the agitating par-
ents in the evening.
The meeting of the
Forum representatives
was held at Shiksha
Sankul with Secretary
Aparna Arora and Di-
rector Secondary Edu-
cation Saurabh Swami.
Swami refused to take
action on schools say-
ing the matter is sub
judice.
He even suggested
that parents should get
their children admitted
to government schools.
After the meeting,
the Forum President
Sunil Yadav said that
future course of action
will now be decided af-
ter discussion with the
other office bearers of
the forum.
Govind Singh Dotasra
‘ACHE DIN’ FOR
HRIDESH!
It appears that ‘Ache Din’ for
IAS Hridesh Kumar Sharma
are finally here since last month
he was promoted to the IAS
from RAS and soon after this
promotion the man has been
give the important chair of
JDA Secretary. Those in the
knowhow of ‘things’, know that
this transfer has been done due
to UDH Ministr Shanti Dhariwal.
The reason for this being that
Hridesh had seen ‘Bure Din’ with
Dhariwal during the previous BJP
government since in the single
lease deed scam, the ACB had
‘troubled’ Hridesh too along with
Dhariwal. To avoid being arrested
Hridesh had to go underground
for several days and that is
how he got over the ‘Bure Din’.
So when his time came, UDH
Minister Dhariwal first made
Hridesh the Joint Secretary in
his department and as soon as
the man was promoted, he was
appointed as JDA Secretary. But
this is not a new position for
Hridesh since he has worked as
deputy commissioner of JDA
for two years in 2009-2010 and
therefore he knows how the
organization works. It is believed
that as JDA Secretary, he will do
a prolific job and as such he has
a hardworking and intelligent
boss in Gaurav Goyal as JDA
Commissioner. It is being said
in the relevant circles that this
is a good time for the JDA since
now both the officials, Hridesh
and Gaurav, are chosen by Shanti
Dhariwal.Sharma was selected
in the RAS in 1994 and for the
best part of three decades in
service, he has proved to be a
good field worker. Apart from
being Municipal Commissioner at
Jaipur, his work in Jaipur Discom,
RTDC, GSM and Archaeology and
Museum department has been
prolific.
—Rajendra Chhabra
CELEBRATING WHAT?
The ‘fanfare’ that was ‘organised’
during Transport Department’s
function on Wednesday, although
much celebrated by the Transport
minister himself, had just one
‘pitfall’. The POS machine that
were distributed to the officials
during the function, also saw
attendance of the official against
whom the ACB registered a
case just a month back! In fact,
the man was handed a POS
machine by the Transport Minister
himself! Now even the officials in
transport department are raising
questions on the purpose of the
entire function wherein a dozen
transport inspectors were given
the machines in whom was
inspector Jagdish Narayan Meena
against whom the ACB registered
a case on 27th October for
disproportionate assets.
—Kashiram Choudhary
HC seeks reply from govt over
RAS mains exam- 2018 result
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Rajasthan
High Court has sought a
reply from RPSC secre-
tary and DoP secretary
in a petition, which has
challenged the result of
RAS-2018 mains exam.
The bench of justice
SP Sharma issued the
notice to the RPSC and
state government seek-
ing reply by 4 December.
Ex-serviceman Bal-
ram Yadav has filed the
petition. His counsel
Rampratap Saini said
that the RPSC had is-
sued the result on July
9, 2020 in which it had to
pass ex-servicemen, but
the RPSC passed ex-ser-
vicemen without check-
ing their documents
due to which eligible ex-
servicemen could not
pass the examination.
12 held for
stealing Holy
book from
Gurudwara
Sunil Sihag
Sri Ganganagar:
In a shocking inci-
dent, few armed
men allegedly at-
tacked 11G Gurud-
wara and took away
the sacred religious
scripture Guru
Granth Sahib on
Tuesday night.
The accused also
snatched the mobile
phones of the police-
men who were de-
puted on duty at the
Holy shrine.
Taking prompt ac-
tioninthematter,the
police have arrested
12 persons and addi-
tional policemen
have been deployed
in the area to main-
tain law and order.
Gurudwara man-
agement committee
said that nearly 2
dozen armed men at-
tackedandtookaway
the ‘Pavan Swarup’
of Guru Granth Sa-
hib and DVR ma-
chines while those
associated with the
accused, claimed
that sacred swarup
hasbeendepositedin
Damdama Sahib.
The Police said
that there is an old
dispute between two
parties in the 11 G
area of Ganganagar,
which resulted in
the incident on Tues-
day night.
Sariska authorities re-locate
six families from tiger habitat
Nirmal Tiwari
Alwar : The villages
situated in the core area
of Sariska Tiger Re-
serve, are not only dan-
gerous for tigers ,but
are also a challenge for
the monitoring team of
forest department since
the start.
Though the re-loca-
tion of villages from
the core area has been
first priority of the de-
partment, but despite
that, forest department
had not achieved much
success. Last year on
November 23, a team
from First India had
reached Sariska and
had started drive for re-
location of these vil-
lages along with Saris-
ka Foundation and For-
est Department. The
results of this are excel-
lent. Few days back, re-
location of villages
started from Sariska
and first of all 5 fami-
lies of Pani Dhal vil-
lage were re-located.
Now, village Haripura
which is considered im-
portant in core area is
also included in the re-
location process. Two
families were relocated
earlier & on Wednesday
six families were re-lo-
cated from Haripura.
Farm Laws: NSUI holds protests
outside residences of Raj MPsFirst India Bureau
Jaipur: Expressingsoli-
darity with the farmers
protesting against the
Centre’s new farm laws,
Congress’ student wing
NSUI held demonstra-
tions in front of the resi-
dences of MPs in Ra-
jasthan on Wednesday.
National Students’
Union of India (NSUI)
state president Ab-
hishek Chaudhary and
other leaders held dem-
onstration in front of
theresidencesof Jaipur
MP Ramcharan Bohra,
Jaipur rural MP Rajya-
vardhan Singh Rathore
and Rajsamand MP
Diya Kumari in Jaipur.
“Other leaders and
workers held similar
protests in front of the
houses of MPs in other
districts in the state
against the central gov-
ernment and the new
farm laws,” an NSUI
spokesperson said.
“The NSUI has de-
manded withdrawal of
the anti-farmers laws.
A large number of
farmers are protesting
against the laws and
the Centre should fulfil
their demands,” he
said.
Meanwhile, the Na-
tional Highway number
62 in Suratgarh, Srigan-
ganagar will be blocked
on Thursday as farmers
will observe chakka
jam. The All India
Farmers’ Association
member Hanuman
Meel said the chakka
Jam will be held at
Manksar Chowk from
12 pm to 2 pm. The Con-
gress Seva Dal will also
demonstrate on Thurs-
day and submit memo
to district collectors in
support of agitation.
They will also hold a
Saddh Buddhi yagya at
the headquarters.
NSUI holds protest outside City Palace in Jaipur which is residence of Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari.
CONG PROVOKING
FARMERS: BJP
—PHOTOBYSUMANSARKAR
Season’s greetings! 33 IPS officers
of Raj to be promoted in New Year
Dr Rituraj Sharma
Jaipur: 33 IPS officers
in Rajasthan will be
promoted to different
scales in New Year.
Chief Secretary
Niranjan Arya chaired
a screening committee
meeting on Wednesday
in which the promo-
tions were approved.
13 IPS officers of 2008
batch, 7 officers of 2007
batch, 10 officers of 2003
batch and 3 officers of
1996 batch will be pro-
moted.
Lovely Katiyar, Rahul
Katakey, Priti Chandra,
Harendra Mahawar, Vi-
kas Pathak, Rahul Jain,
Omprakash-II, Sameer
KumarSingh,TejrajSin-
gh Kharodiya, Rajesh
Singh, Jagdish Chandra
Sharma, Rajendra Pras-
ad Goyal and Kaluram
Rawat will be promoted
to selection scale. They
are the officers of 2008
batch. 7 IPS officers of
2007 batch namely
Kailash Chandra Bish-
noi, Mamta Rahul, Dr
Amandeep Singh Ka-
poor, Dr Ravi, Barhat Ra-
hul Manhardan, Satyen-
dra Kumar, Randheer
Singh will become DIG
while 10 officers of 2003
batch- Nitindeep Blug-
gan, Hinglaj Dan,
Satyaveer Singh, UL
Chhanwal, Rajesh Mee-
na, Sanjay Shrotriya,
SurendraGupta,Ravidu-
tt Gaur, Laxman Prasad
Gaur and Prashan Ku-
mar Khamesra will be
promotedfromDIGtoIG.
Three officers of 1996
batch Binita Thakur,
SachinMittalandSanjib
Kumar Narzary will be-
come ADG. On the other
hand, 2 IFS officers of
1996 batch- Anand Mo-
han & Uday Shankar,
will become ACCF while
Akanksha Mahajan and
VijayNof 2003batchwill
become CCF. Screening
for promotion of IAS of-
ficers will be held on
Thursday.
Niranjan Arya
Rajasthan Foundation to assist in health
services to migrant Rajasthanis in Delhi
First India Bureau
New Delhi: The Ra-
jasthan Foundation
would make efforts that
all the migrant Ra-
jasthani families settled
in Delhi, get better and
accessible health ser-
vices at all government
hospitals in the national
capital at the right time,
said Foundation Com-
missioner Dhiraj Sriv-
astava on Wednesday.
Srivastava said this
during a meeting with
the delegation of Ra-
jasthan Mitra Mandal at
Bikaner House in New
Delhi. He said that the
manner in which Ra-
jasthan Mitra Mandal,
NationalCapitalRegion,
Delhi is working to pro-
vide health care facili-
ties to needy migrants is
a commendable effort.
“Thousands of mi-
grant Rajasthani fami-
lies are settled in Delhi
and people from Ra-
jasthan come to the gov-
ernmenthospitalsevery
day for their treatment.
The foundation will
workwiththeRajasthan
MitraMandaltoprovide
facilities for them in a
new place so that they
meet good doctors, liv-
ing space, food and all
facilitieseasily,”hesaid.
Kanishka Yadav,
Founder and Chairman
of Rajasthan Mitra
Mandal, said that the
mandal has been pro-
viding accessible health
services in hospitals to
needy poor families
coming from Rajasthan
for the last three years
in Delhi/NCR.
“In the past years, we
have set up about 30 vol-
untary blood donation
camps in AIIMS, Safdar-
jung and RML hospitals
in Delhi, where more
than eight thousand
units of blood were do-
nated,” said Commis-
sioner Srivastava.
Dhiraj Srivastava along with ChandraKanta Rajpurohit, Kanishk
Yadav, Jethu Singh Khichad, Anil Jain, Rajendra Sehra and
Abhishek Agrawal at Bikaner House, New Delhi.

Good health is a combination of
a healthy mind and a healthy
body and the only with both can
one achieve the other.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO & Editor, First India
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First India Bureau
Jaipur: Maharaj
Prithviraj Singh of the
erstwhile Jaipur royal
family, son of Mahara-
ja Sawai Man Singh II
of Jaipur by his second
wife,MaharaniKishore
Kunwar, breathed his
last breath on Tuesday
evening at the age of 85
years. Born on 10th De-
cember, 1935, he re-
ceived the title Raja of
Bhagwatgarth at an
early age and was mar-
ried to Maharaj Ku-
mari Devika Devi, a
princess of Tripura
and a niece (sister’s
daughter) of his step-
mother Gayatri Devi.
Educated at Kashmir
and England, Singh
went on to become MP
from Dausa constitu-
ency and later playing
a pivotel role in the hos-
pitality industry while
played key role on
launching Rajasthan at
Tourism destination
and was also Director
Rambagh Palace. He
was incharge for put-
ting Palaces on Global
map including his tre-
mendous efforts in
making Rambagh as
number one hotel in
the World. He was
known to be a sharp en-
trepreneur, thorough
professional and a vi-
sionary. A people’s per-
son and a very ground-
ed individual, he is
survived by a son, Vijit
Singh.
Ex-royal ‘Maharaj’ Prithvi Singh dies of corona at 85
END OF AN ERA
CM GEHLOT TO HONOUR
SPECIALLY ABLED PEOPLE
Bhanwar S. Charan
Kota: Lok Sabha Speak-
er Om Birla while con-
versing exclusively
with First India in his
hometown Kota has
made an important
statement regarding
coaching in Kota. He
has said that when eve-
rything is gradually
getting unlocked then
the time of conducting
offline coaching classes
in Kota has also ar-
rived. And the state gov-
ernment should make a
decision soon in this
matter and should de-
cide and issue the
guidelines about this.
During his stay in
Kota, many people
from Kota and Bundi
met Birla at the Loksab-
ha camp office at Shak-
ti Nagar. During this,
Birla said that if the
need arises he will him-
self speak with the
state government be-
cause the students have
started arriving in
Kota and when the
coaching people, stu-
dents, and parents are
preparing to conduct
the offline coaching
classes with dedicated
corona guidelines then
the government also
needs to be sensitive
and said that coaching
was the backbone of
the economy of Kota.
Speaker of the Lok Sab-
ha claimed that due to
the shutdown of the
coaching classes the
economy was strug-
gling. Birla also spoke
to the officials of PD-
NHAI and asked them
to solve the approach
road problem of 5 vil-
lages of Kota Baran Na-
tional Highway at the
earliest.
Naresh Sharma
Jaipur: Rajasthan
chief minister Ashok
Gehlot will address a
function on Thursday
to mark the world disa-
bled day.
Specially abled per-
sons and organisations
working for specially
abled persons will be
felicitated in the func-
tion which will also be
attended by the Ra-
jasthan MoS for social
justice and empower-
ment minister Rajen-
dra Yadav.
Ugma Lal Raigar,
Salimuddin Pehalwan,
Om Prakash Gurjar,
Megha Sharma, Banta
Kumari, Rahman Khan,
Irfan Khan, Moin Khan,
Ramchandra Kadwas-
ra, Jagdish Kumar,
Neelam Goyal, Pradeep
Vaishnav, Saurabh
Agrawal will be hon-
oured.
Others who will be fe-
licitated are Sunita Mee-
na, Kuldeep Chinawal,
Ranjeet Singh, Gurjant
Singh,SaritaGora,Man-
isha Meena, Nirmala
Kumawat, Udayveer
Singh Yadav, Ashok Ku-
mar Pareek, Ramesh
ChandraYadav,Shrawan
Kumar, Shrawan Kumar
Saini, Thakra Ram
Meghwal, Anita Ku-
mari, Devendra Singh,
Arun Kumar, Gaurav
Swami, Pooran Bijwadi-
ya, Nirmala Devi, Loke-
sh Sankhla, Gulam Mo-
hammad, Dev Kishan,
Abdul Hamid, Lalara,
Shrawan Kumar, Prem-
lata Vaishnav,Chandra
Prakash, Kishore Singh,
Datar Singh Ramlal.
NGOs and other indi-
viduals who have
worked for specially
abled people will also be
honoured in the func-
tion which will be at-
tended by all district
collectors through vir-
tual medium.
Vimal Kothari
Jaipur: The Oswal
soap group has con-
fessed tax evasion and
has deposited the tax of
Rs. 25 lakh after the
SGST survey conduct-
ed on October 9.
The anti-evasion
branch of SGST Jaipur
zone conducted sur-
veys on six premises of
the group in Kanota,
Malviya Nagar, Mansa-
rover, and Bassi area.
The team detected eva-
sion and irregularities
in books which were
examined in detail. Ad-
ditional commissioner
Mahesh Kumar Chaud-
hary confirmed recov-
ery from the group and
said that further analy-
sis of the GST return,
books, and other docu-
ments is going on. The
department has issued
a summon to the group
directors.
Ravi Sharma
Udaipur: Union Jal
Shakti Minister Gajen-
dra Singh Shekhawat
has said a Sarpanch of a
village is not just an
elected representative
of a gram panchayat but
the Prime Minister of
small Parliament gram
panchayat. He said the
way in larger Parlia-
ment PM Narendra
Modi realises the impor-
tance of water, the sar-
panchs of gram pan-
chayat which are the
smaller parliaments
need to realise the im-
portanceof water. Shek-
ahwat was addressing
the National Sarpanch
Sansad through virtual
mode from Udaipur or-
ganised by MIT World
Peace University Pune.
He said that the Nation-
al Sarpanch sansad was
an important pro-
gramme which is con-
nected with the ground
of the nation. He said
that for the first time in
the history of any PM ,
no one discussed clean
water & cleanliness is-
sue from the ramparts
of the Red Fort. Naren-
dra Modi is the first PM
who took the responsi-
bility of making clean
water & toilet available
to everyone. He said that
despite pandemic, work
to rejuvenate 7 lakh wa-
ter bodies out of which
work on more than 4
lakh 52 thousand has
been completed.
Abhishek Shrivastava
Jaipur: UDH minister
Shanti Dhariwal has
directed officials to
cancel the allotment of
lands given to various
organisations on con-
cessional rates if the
allotment conditions
are not being fulfilled.
Officials of the civic
bodies will carry out
inspection and if any
violation of land allot-
ment conditions is
found, then the allot-
ment will be cancelled
and possession of the
land will be taken back.
The minister had on
1 June sought details of
the land allotment on
concessional rates by
development authori-
ties, municipal corpo-
rations, municipal
council, municipali-
ties, and urban im-
provement trust after
which a list of 1897
such matters was for-
warded to the minis-
ter. On instructions of
the minister, the urban
development and hous-
ing department has
now ordered the local
bodies to conduct an
inspection in their ar-
eas in 15 days and can-
cel land allotment on
violation of allotment
conditions. The posses-
sion of the land will be
taken back within
three days. Where
there is full compli-
ance, officers will issue
certificates in such
cases.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Chief Secre-
tary Niranjan Arya on
Wednesday directed
officials to consider of-
fering customized
packages in the new
civil aviation policy
for expanding infra-
structure for the devel-
opment of air services
in Rajasthan. Chair-
ing a meeting to dis-
cuss the new aviation
policy through video
conference, he said
that provisions should
be made in the new
policy so that a favora-
ble environment for
expansion and
strengthening of air
services in the state
can be made. Arya
said that investors de-
mand easy availability
of electricity and wa-
ter with land and
seamless connectivity
to main roads to de-
velop airports and air-
strips and to meet this
demand, considera-
tion should be made to
include the civil avia-
tion industry in the
Rajasthan Investment
Promotion Scheme
(RIPS) -2019 to offer
customized packages.
The chief secretary
said that government
land can be allotted as
per availability and
private land can be
taken as per the cen-
tral government’s
land acquisition act.
He said that the plan-
ning department will
prepare the final draft
and will make a best
policy after compar-
ing it to the policies of
other states. Secre-
tary- civil aviation de-
partment Preetam B.
Yashwant, special sec-
retary Dr. Mohanlal
Yadav and Director
Kesari Singh talked
about the need for the
cooperation and ac-
tion from the depart-
ments for the proposed
policy. Principal secre-
tary- finance Akhil
Arora, principal secre-
tary -revenue Anand
Kumar, UDH Principal
Secretary Bhaskar A.
Sawant and senior of-
ficials of other depart-
ments were present in
the meeting.
‘Time to conduct offline
coaching classes in Kota’
Oswal group
confesses
tax evasion
Each Sarpanch a
PM: Shekhawat
‘Cancel allotment
if found violation’
New policy should expand and
strengthen air services: CS Arya
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla
Maharaj Jai Singh and Maharaj Prithvi Singh
Gajendra Singh ShekhawatShanti Dhariwal
FAISAL PATEL
@mfaisalpatel
Salaams. Thank you
all for wanting to
come pass on your
condolences for
Ahmed Patel ji. We
will be in Delhi &
can meet everyone
3rd December
(Thursday) onwards
everyday between
12-5pm.
Regards,
Mrs. A.Patel &
Family
Maharaj Prithvi Singh
ji was a quintessential
gentleman in every
which way. He was in-
effably courteous, soft-spoken, ex-
tremely catholic in his worldview
and elegant in his demeanour as
well as appearance. I do not
know how many people in Rajasthan as well as
rest of India are really aware about his im-
mense contribution to the cause of spreading ex-
cellence in education in Rajasthan. I am really
saddened by his untimely demise. I have lost a
friend and Rajasthan has lost one of the thought
leaders. —Sunil Arora, CEC
Niranjan Arya
CM Ashok Gehlot
Rambagh palace
COVID-19
UPDATE
RAJASTHAN
2,350
DEATHS
2,72,400
CONFIRMED CASES
GUJARAT
4,018 DEATHS 2,12,769 CASES
DELHI
WORLD
14,93,596
DEATHS
6,45,32,619
CONFIRMED CASES
INDIA
95,31,109
CONFIRMED CASES
1,38,627
DEATHS
MAHARASHTRA
47,357 DEATHS 18,32,176 CASES
UTTAR PRADESH
KARNATAKA
11,792 DEATHS 8,86,227 CASES

MADE IT
TO THE TOP
MADE IT
TO THE TOPAruna Beniwal, the First Runner-up of Miss
Rajasthan 2019 from Jaipur, has made it to the
top finalists of Femina Miss India 2020 and will
be representing Rajasthan
he Pink City has been
made proud once
again, as Aruna Beni-
wal, Runner-up of Ra-
jasthan’s oldest beau-
ty pageant ‘Miss Ra-
jasthan 2019’, has
made it to the top finalists’ list
of Femina Miss India 2020. Af-
ter Suman Rao from Rajsa-
mand, Rajasthan, Aruna will
be representing Rajasthan in
this national beauty pageant.
Yogesh and Nimisha Mishra
from Fusion Group and men-
tors of Aruna stated, “Miss
Rajasthan provides a big plat-
form to the participants in the
regional level and prepares
them in such a way that they
are able to make their place at
the national and international
levels. As a result of this, we
are proud to say that Aruna
will be representing ‘Miss Ra-
jasthan’ in India, and will
definitely be a strong contend-
er for the crown this time.”
The Femina Miss India is a
national beauty pageant in In-
dia that annually selects rep-
resentatives to compete in
Miss World, one of the biggest
international beauty pag-
eants. Due to the COVID-19
pandemic, for the first time in
history, the
entire pro-
cess of
the con-
test will
be held
d i g i -
tally.
NEHAL NAYAR
nehal.nayar@firstindia.co.in
T
Aruna Beniwal,
Nimisha and
Yogesh Mishra,
Kanchan Khatana
Jagdeesh Chandra congratulating Aruna Beniwal
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JUHI SESHANI, Model
LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
Those ailing for long can
expect a miraculous
recovery. Keeping a check
on expenses is your only
hope to save for purchasing a major
item. Those in a creative field will
achieve much in terms of clientele.
Spouse may differ with your opinion
about a social situation.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
Timely treatment of a
minor ailment will prevent
it getting aggravated.
Returns from previous
investments will manage to finance
something you desire. Things may
not be completely hunky dory on the
professional front. Resetting the
house may be on the minds.
ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
Dancing and doing fun
things will keep some in
perfect health. Timely help
from someone close will
be a boon for those financially tight
at the moment. However, the same
cannot be said about business
owners, especially where profits are
concerned.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22
Health remains satisfactory,
but aim for total fitness.
Make any excuse, but don’t
lend money to anyone today.
Maintaining a working relationship with
those you don’t like will be a better
option. Home remedy may come in
handy in countering a malady. Shifting
into a bigger house is possible.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
A family reunion is
indicated and promises
much enjoyment. Religious
minded can go on a
spiritually elevating journey. Some of
you may get embroiled in a legal
battle over property. You will be able
to keep up the pace on the academic
front.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 19
Health of a family member
may cause a bit of a
concern, but will be nothing
serious. Money comes to
you from various sources to fill your
coffers. Your strategy for promoting
business is likely to be on the right
lines and lead to good profits.
Distractions need to be avoided.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20
Some of you will have to
adopt measures to blunt
the impact of a lifestyle
disease. Consider betting
and speculation a big no-no, if you
don’t want to ruin yourself financially.
Your performance is likely to improve
manifold on the professional front
and get noticed.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
Those doing their bit to
shed weight will succeed
beyond their expectations!
You will be able to remain
strong on the financial front.
Thinking out of the box is likely to get
the spotlight on you on the
professional front. A pending
property issue gets completed.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23
An exercise buddy can be a
blessing in disguise for
some. Purchasing
expensive items may need
to be put on hold. This is the day
when you will achieve unprecedented
success in your current occupation.
Some of you may not be able to
devote much time to family.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
Adequate health measures
will keep you in a fine
fettle. You are likely to
remain in the saving mode
for some more time. Positive
developments at work can keep you
in an upbeat mood. Differences with
your spouse should be best avoided
or they may take an ugly turn.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20
Rest and relaxation are
yours as you manage to
find the perfect getaway.
You may be compelled to
spend more on something, but it will
be worth it. Keeping a low profile on
the professional front may keep you
from coming into the notice of those
who matter.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
Choosing a healthy lifestyle
at this juncture becomes
most essential for some.
Judicious spending and
not succumbing to temptations
promise to keep your financial
situation intact. Market trends can
tempt you into playing the stocks,
which may prove to be profitable.
YOUR
DAYHoroscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
Sponsored by First India News International Pvt. Ltd.
RAVI KAMRA
cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
hen the first words uttered in a movie
are lyrics of a song, it is clear that this
is a movie in which music is the very
soul of the film. The lyrics of Sahir Lu-
dhianvi are composed by Jaidev and
themagicof thissoundtrackhaslasted
for decades till today. Starring Dev
Anandinadoublerole,alongwithSad-
hana and Nanda, Hum Don is film takes on the
classic lookalike trope, set against the backdrop
of World War 2.
Although the story does not convince at plac-
es, but the script is so camouflaged in high dra-
ma that somehow it works. Thanks to Dev
Anand’scharisma,andhisabilitytoportraytwo
markedlydifferentpersonalitiesinhisfirst-ever
double role. The film tells the story of Anand
(Dev Anand), a jobless and not well-off young
man who wants to marry Meeta (Sadhana), but
her father is against the match and insults
Anand for not having a job. Anand leaves an-
grily, and on his way home, sees a poster adver-
tising a call to join the Indian Army. He joins,
and gets posted in Burma. Anand meets his sen-
ior officer, Major Manohar Lal Verma (also
played by Dev Anand), who looks exactly like
him, save for his hairstyle and moustaches. The
two become friends and confide in each other
about their lives and fears for their loved ones
in case something happens to them. Major Ver-
ma gets badly injured in the war, and tells Cap-
tain Anand that instead of wasting time and
endangering his own life trying to help him,
Anand should leave him for dead and save him-
self.Anandreluctantlydoesso,butcanneverrid
himself of the guilt.
As he had promised he would take the respon-
sibility of informing his wife, Ruma (Nanda),
and mother (Lalita Pawar), ostensibly to tell
them that their beloved son and husband is pre-
sumeddead..TheymistakehimforMajorVerma
himself,andaresoemotionallyoverwhelmedby
his return that he cannot bring himself to tell
them the truth. Ruma is a heart patient, and the
familydoctor,advisesAnandtokeephisidentity
to himself for some time, causing emotional dis-
tress to both Ruma and Meeta, who are dealing
with what they each perceive as a lack of love.
The story again takes a turn as Major Verma
whohassurvivedcomesbackbuthaslostoneleg
and is unsure of how Ruma will feel about him
now. Misunderstanding and high drama goes on
but the film comes to an end with a happy note
and both join their life companions.
With the songs In the film, lyricist Sahir Lu-
dhianvi turns melodrama into a meditation on
love, war and life. Directed by Amar Jeet (al-
though it is widely believed lead actor and pro-
ducer Dev Anand’s brother Vijay was the real
brains behind it), Hum Dono (1961).
In an interview, noted lyricist and poet Javed
Akhtar said that Hum Dono‘s opening song,
Abhi Na Jaao Chhodkar continues to inspire
him.Callingit “oneof thefinestromanticduets
ever made in Indian cinema”, he spoke of how
everythingcametogether—thecomposition,
the vocals of Mohammed Rafi and Asha
Bhosle and Sahir’s words.
W
ON THE NINTH DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF DEV ANAND, RAVI KAMRA SHARES HIS THOUGHTS
ON ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE FILMS OF DEV, ‘HUM DONO’

T
he ‘Stranger Things’
star Millie Bobby Brown
shared a tearful video on
Instagram Story, re-
counting the uncomfortable
incident when a fan filmed her
without her permission. She
has deleted the video from
her social media now. She
said a young fan asked her
to take a video, but when
Brown declined, the girl
filmed her. In her black
and white clip, Brown
recalled: “Shesaid,‘Can
I take a video of you?’ I
said,‘Um,no’.Butwhywould
anyone want to be taken a video
of? Of me? It’s not like the both
of us.” She added: “I don’t need
to justify it to anyone. If I don’t
want to be taken a video of, I
don’t have to be.” —Agency
P
eacock is owning up
to its mistake in
their new series,
Saved By The Bell
and has decided to take
down the graffiti scenes
mocking Selena
Gomez’s kidney trans-
plant. If you missed it,
over the weekend, the
streaming network
and the show came
under fire after fea-
turing a few scenes, as
well as some graffiti on the wall of
the school that mocked Selena
Gomez‘s kidney transplant. There
are two separate scenes in episode
six of the Peacock series, in one scene
from the show, two students (not of the
main cast) are overheard arguing
about just who was Selena‘s transplant
donor – ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber‘s
mom or singer Demi Lovato. —Agency
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY!
A
n actor making B-
town and more im-
portantly women
in general proud
with her content-driven
movies, Konkona Sen
Sharma, as an actor
has given us movies
that we can look
back and deeply
contemplate. With
two National Film
Awards and four
Filmfare Awards
in her resume,
Sen who turns 41
is more than just
a powerful actor
with her acting
jobs but in other
corners such as
education and
art. Fans are ea-
gerly waiting to
see this stun-
ning actor on
the big screen
soon. —City First
B
ollywood actor
and BJP MP
from Gurdaspur
Sunny Deol has
tested positive for Cov-
id, the Himachal
Pradesh health secre-
tary said on Tuesday.
Deol has been staying
in Kullu district for the
past few days, Health
Secretary Amitabh
Awasthi said. Accord-
ing to information re-
ceived from the district
chief medical of-
ficer, the MP and
his friends were
planning to leave
for Mumbai, but his
Covid test result
came out positive on
Tuesday. The 64-year-
old Bollywood actor
had undergone shoul-
der surgery in Mumbai
and was recuperating
at a farmhouse near
Manali.
—Agency
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CRITICISM
Apologies
ritish singer Rita Ora
apologized on Mon-
day for breaking
COVID-19 lockdown
rules by holding a
birthday party, saying
it was “a serious and in-
excusable error of judg-
ment.” Under lockdown rules
that end Wednesday, all pubs
and restaurants in England must
close except for takeout and de-
livery, and people are barred
from meeting indoors with mem-
bers of other households.
“It was a spur of the moment
decision made with the misguid-
ed view that we were coming out
of lockdown and this would be
OK,” she wrote. Ora said she now
realized “how irresponsible
these actions were and I take full
responsibility.” —Agency
and was recuperating
at a farmhouse near
—Agency
CRITICISMritish singer Rita Ora
apologized on Mon-
day for breaking
COVID-19 lockdown
rules by holding a
birthday party, saying
it was “a serious and in-
excusable error of judg-
ment.” Under lockdown rules
that end Wednesday, all pubs
and restaurants in England must
close except for takeout and de-
livery, and people are barred
from meeting indoors with mem-
bers of other households.
“It was a spur of the moment
decision made with the misguid-
ed view that we were coming out
of lockdown and this would be
OK,” she wrote. Ora said she now
realized “how irresponsible
these actions were and I take full
responsibility.”
B
AFTER
Cardi B Rita Ora
Sunny Deol
tests positive
chief medical of-
ficer, the MP and
his friends were
planning to leave
for Mumbai, but his
Covid test result
came out positive on
Tuesday. The 64-year-
old Bollywood actor
had undergone shoul-
NEVER-
BEFORE-SEEN
SENDING LOVE
O
ver two months after Gigi Hadid and
Zayn Malik welcomed their daughter,
the supermodel took to Instagram and
shared a few never-before-seen photos
from her pregnancy days. Through the period,
Gigi opted to keep her pregnancy away from the
spotlight. Although she gave us a look at her
growing baby bump via an Instagram Live in
the summer, she shared minimal photos from
the phase. However, Gigi has now shared three
new photos from the late summer and it fea-
tures Zayn Malik. —Agency
S
hawn Mendes and Niall Horan go a long
way! Over the years, we’ve seen the
Stitches singer and the One Direction
member shower each other with love and
support. Recently, we caught a glimpse of their
friendship in a video posted by Shawn. The
singer took to Instagram and shared a post with
photos and videos to talk about all “good
things.” Speaking of the video featuring the
two singers, Shawn and Niall were seen
sending Shawn’s girlfriend Camila Ca-
bello love. —Agency
A
ditya Narayan
has tied the knot
withhisladylove
Shweta Agarwal
onTuesday.Thecouple’s
marriage has been the
talk of the town ever
since it was announced.
The groom
was seen
in an ivo-
rywhite
s h e r -
wani and matching tur-
ban as he headed to take
his ‘dulhania’ home.
One could also see his
father Udit Narayan
dancing with joy.
There is no denying
the fact that the two of
them look regal in
the picture.
While we have
already de-
scribed the
groom’s attire, we seem
to have run out of
words to describe the
beautiful bride. She col-
our coordinated with
Aditya and wore an
ivory lehenga teamed
up with a pink dupatta.
Shweta also wore
matching jewellery
that further completed
her bridal look.
—Agency
TEARFUL
VIDEO
PANKAJ TRIPATHI
REVEALED A SECRET
R
anveer Singh
sent his fans in
a flurry of ex-
citement last
year when he an-
nounced that he will
be playing Indian
cricketer Kapil Dev
and chronicling In-
dia’s first World Cup
victory. However, the
pandemic played
spoilsport and the
film’s April 2020 re-
lease had to be pushed.
The makers are keen on
releasing the film on the
big screen and Pankaj Tri-
pathi will be essaying the
role of India’s coach PR
Man Singh.
Pankaj often
goofedaroundwith
Ranveer Singh and
the teammates.
“I’d take advan-
tage of my senior-
ity and my role to
admonish them
sometimes, and if we
packed up early, I’d regale
them with stories and my
extensive knowledge,”
Pankaj revealed. —Agency
ADITYANARAYANTIEDKNOT
Sunny Deol
Gigi Hadid’s post
Pankaj Tripathi Konkona Sen Sharma
Shweta Agarwal and Aditya Narayan
Pankaj’s post
Millie Bobby Brown Selena Gomez
Still from Shawn Mendes’ video
No graffiti
SCENES

fter a success-
ful virtual sea-
son of ‘The
Fashion Con-
nect’ by First
India, the
eighth season
of the same is all set to
be held on 16 December
at Rambagh Palace
Jaipur. There are vari-
ous stunning fashion
designers on board,
with ‘Sakh Jaipur’ be-
ing one of them.
Sakh Jaipur, started
by a brother-sister duo
is inspired by vintage
style and focuses ma-
jorly on craftsmanship.
From hand-drawn
prints to perfect-
ly handcrafted
outfits, they
focus on
real tech-
niques of
fashion.
N e h a
Khatri
from Sakh Jaipur
stated, “We have
tried our level
best to soak the
aesthetic beauty
of Jaipur and re-
flect them in the
designs. During
the period of lock-
down and after it
the craftsman suf-
fered a lot, as well
the businesses
which make
timeless pieces.
But we believe
the charm of
real crafts-
manship on
the outfits
will never
fade. We
will keep
impressing
everyone
with the
outfits we
design.”
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WHAT’S HAPPENING!
RAJ: Dr Gaurav Jain interacted with the audience in the online weekly series
‘Our Rajasthan Saksham Rajasthan’ organised by Diya Kumari Foundation.
Gaurav shared interesting experiences of his musical journey at the event
anchored by Esma Aggarwal.
GUJ: King Star Sports Academy is organising a Football Tournament in Ahmedabad to
honour the Football legend Diego Maradona whom the world has lost recently. Due to the
ongoing pandemic, Football players in the state have been craving for a long time while
sitting in their homes. King star Sports Academy has organised the Football Tournament-
1st 7 A-Side Youth League with around 300 players between 15 and 17 age.This is the
first Tournament of its kind that will be played to honour India’s football legend.
RPSC Chairman
Bhupendra
Yadav
celebrated his
birthday on
2 December,
Wednesday. We
wish him all
the best!
(GUJ) IAS SJ
Haider celebrated
his birthday on
2 December,
Wednesday. We wish
him all the best!
HAPPY B’DAY!
Congress Leader Jyoti and Sharad Khandelwal’s daughter Akshima tied the knot to Rishi, son of Anita and Dr Rakesh Sachdeva at Woods Villa Resort, Jaipur on 30 November. Given the corona pandemic, marriage program was concluded with only 50
members and all the corona protocols were followed on the occasion.
CONGRATULATIONS AND CELEBRATIONS!
THE ART OF
DANCING
CITY FIRST
S
anjay Dhaka
who has shown
his flair in In-
dia’s Got Talent
Season 3, told the kids
in Digital Baal Mela
by LIC, that it is im-
portant to be stub-
born to be a good
dancer. When
Sanjay Dhaka
joined the children on-
line on Wednesday
evening in the Maha-
kumbh of children,
the children fond of
dancing raised many
questions one after
the other.
The children of Dig-
ital Baal Mela request-
ed Sanjay Dhaka to
join the Virtual Meet
once again. Sanjay
Dhaka said that the
lack of school for the
children cannot be
met but the Baal Mela
has done a lot to fill
their lives.
Shweta Goyal, an
artist and an as-
sistant professor
at IIS University
will join the series
today.
Children who are
interested in drawing
can join a zoom meet-
ing in Digital Baal
Mela’s online session
today at 4 pm. This is a
free session organised
by the Future Society,
sponsored by LIC.
Common man’s
PROBLEMS!
CITY FIRST
G
iven the transi-
tion of Corona,
strict steps like
night curfew
have been taken by the
state government at
the district headquar-
ters, which is quite
commendable. But
throughamemoran-
dum,theCongress
collector Amit
Dhariwal in-
formed the district
collector about the
problems being faced
by the common man.
Amit Dhariwal
shared that the noc-
turnal curfews in the
MBS Hospital and J.K.
lawn hospital cause a
lot of trouble for the
patients. For the con-
venience of the pa-
tients, some business
establishments in the
vicinity of the hospi-
tal were identified and
apprised to the Dis-
trict Collector for per-
mission to open dur-
ing the night curfew or
to provide this facility
in Indira Rasoi run
by the State Gov-
ernment.
Not only this,
but people are also
facing parking issues.
E n c r o a c h m e n t s
around parking areas
should be removed
with immediate effect
so that the public can
avail the facility of
parking.
HAPPY B’DAY!
CII Conference
M.L Memorial Oration
RAJ: The 2nd edition of International Conference on
Disability & Rehabilitation is going to be organised
by CII Webex platform today and on Friday at 11:20
am. Chief Minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot has
confirmed to be the Chief Guest at the special
session of the conference today. —City First
RAJ: M.L Mehta
Memorial Foundation
and HCM Ripa, Jaipur
are going to organise
6th M.L Mehta
Memorial Oration on
Good Governance
Practices by Add.
Secretary Govt. of India
& Director-General,
National Centre of Good
Governance along with
Chief Secretary, Govt. of
Rajasthan Niranjan Arya on 7 December. —City First
BUZZZ
AESTHETICALLY
BEAUTIFULCity First showcases a few designs of Sakh Jaipur, a participating
designer of The Fashion Connect Season 8 by First India!
NEHAL NAYAR
nehal.nayar@firstindia.co.in
A
CITY FIRST
T
he journey of
Elite Miss Ra-
jasthan audi-
tion has seen a
plethora of talented
contestants fighting it
out to make their mark
in the journey ahead.
Rajasthan’s most prom-
inent beauty pageant
Elite Miss Rajasthan
2020 season- 7 has
successfully head-
ed towards its fina-
le and after 2 months
of the remarkable audi-
tions in Kota, Udaipur
and Jodhpur it now
calls for the final audi-
tion of this year. Elite
Miss Rajasthan 2020
is going to organise
its last set of audi-
tions in Jaipur for
the city aspirants at
Hotel Hilton on 3 De-
cember, today at 3 pm.
AUDITIONS IN THE PINK CITY
Neha Khatri
Charvi Tanya Dutta
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